Tag: life & news
Unprecedented cuts to the National Science Foundation endanger research that improves...
Paul Bierman, University of Vermont
Look closely at your mobile phone or tablet. Touch-screen technology, speech recognition, digital sound...
Challenges to high-performance computing threaten US innovation
Jack Dongarra, University of Tennessee
High-performance computing, or HPC for short, might sound like something only scientists use in...
How your genes interact with your environment changes your disease risk...
Arun Durvasula, University of Southern California
Sitting in my doctor’s examination room, I was surprised when she told me,...
Why protecting wildland is crucial to American freedom and identity
Leisl Carr Childers, Colorado State University and Michael Childers, Colorado State University
As summer approaches, millions of Americans begin...
Trump moves to gut low-income energy assistance as summer heat descends...
Conor Harrison, University of South Carolina; Elena Louder, University of South Carolina; Nikki Luke, University of Tennessee, and Shelley Welton, University of...
Why collect asteroid samples? 4 essential reads on what these tiny...
Mary Magnuson, The Conversation
China’s Tianwen-2 asteroid sample return mission is set to launch this month, May 2025, en...
Calorie counts on menus and food labels may not help consumers...
Deidre Popovich, Texas Tech University
Knowing the calorie content of foods does not help people understand which foods are...
If you really want to close the US trade deficit, try...
Amitrajeet A. Batabyal, Rochester Institute of Technology
President Donald Trump has long been preoccupied by the trade deficit —...
EXPLORING NATURE
Why it’s OK to say ‘namaste’ in yoga class
Jeremy David Engels, Penn State
“Namaste,” a common greeting in India and South Asia, has become a global cultural...
